Richard Dawkins' Religious Scale

[Wander]

In his book "The God Delusion", Prof. Dawkins sets out a scale by which a person may measure their attitude towards the existence of supreme beings. This forum seems to be more inherently tolerant of others than most sites I've been to, and I'm just plain curious: where would you rank yourself on this scale? You can give reasons why if you like, but try to keep the arguing and attacking down. If you would rather not answer, then simply don't vote.

[Gerry]

I chose #6 -- you can never be 100% sure though. That's why I didn't go with option #7.

[Daniel]

This is kind of specific...maybe the wording could have been a little more vague to include more religions that a person is a member of?

[littledinosaurs]

Im a fence sitter.

[Wander]

The scale is not meant to measure religion definitively, but the belief in the existence of one or more divine entities. Nothing more or less. I'm just giving you what he wrote in his book, not my own work.

[XXX Lou XXX]

I voted 7. I've never believed in god and I don't think I ever will.

[No One]

while i voted almost certainly there isn't a god i have to say this my dad is a preacher and while sometimes i wish and feel that there is a god my mind set makes me look for a scientific explanation for the world around me. In my opinion while it isn't entirely impossible that there is a mystical being that has created the universe it is more probable, more likely, and more sensible that the universe was created by scientific means. i dont know im very confused about the whole religion thing.

[Hoppip]

I'd say I'm a five, but I absolutely love when people have a religion; it's the spice of life, the diversity that makes us all whole. I think it's perfectly fine to be religious or nonreligious, and I love that people are and aren't. But personally, I'm a five.

[NathanHaleFan]

I voted a six. I'd just like to say that, whatever you believe about a god or gods, nobody should ever place themselves as a #1 or #7, because as a principle, you can never be 100% sure of anything. Dawkins himself is a 6.

[Swamp56]

I went with #6

[Owen]

I really can't vote in this poll. I am not a person who can hold a belief without some sort of proof backing up that belief, and we have no proof that God exists or does not exist, at least, none that I know of. And even if we did have proof one way or another, religion is so omnipresent in our society that it would be impossible for that proof to be looked at rationally.

[Brandford]

I believe there is a god but i think hes waaaaaaayyyyy overrated, so i put 4

[Mickey]

I voted 3. Catholic guilt...ya know?

i went with #6

I said 5. Evidence points very strongly towards there being no God, but we really won't know until death.

[ProfessorLepus]

I'm a three. I stopped believing in Abrahamic religions because I don't believe a god would ever let the worship of it become so segmented with so many offshoots. I definitely think it's possible that there is no god, but if there wasn't, why do they say that the universe began? If there was not god, how would anything begin?

As for evolution and stuff like that, I refuse to argue about that because any arguments either way, for or against, would just kind of bounce off of me. I don't know enough about science to be convinced by scientific reasoning, no matter what you're arguing for.

[Nixon]

number 2
ever saw rabbi schmuley school him on youtube

[White Sundog]

I considered myself a "soft" or agnostical atheist, until I heard of something called "ignosticism" in which the question of the presence or absence of a God depends heavily on how you define God, which is almost impossible to do. So now I'm not sure whether to call myself an atheist or not, but I don't think there's any kind of "traditional" humanoid God. The closest answer on this scale to my current attitude is "more likely that there isn't one" - 5.

I guess in the purest sense of "doesn't believe, but doesn't necessarily disbelieve either," I am still an atheist. But I think a God of some sort is more likely than I used to think now that I realize the undefinability of the concept.

[Amy]

Persnaly, I am 100% sure that there is a supreme, spiritual being. However, if someone does not believe the same as I --whether it is the views of religion in general or in my God-- I do not care. My two bestfriends are a Hindu and a guy who believes there must be a special place for him in hell.

I believe that each person has their own spirit and their beleifs are, just that, their's.

[Austin]

I put down 7... im in between a 6 and 7. I am about 99.9999% sure there is no God.